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Way back in October of last year I reviewed Joshua Henkin’s book, Matrimony.

I really enjoyed the book and wish that I could link to the review that I wrote.  Sadly, that was one of the posts that got assassinated during the “Great Host Move of ‘08″.  [Just take me at my word that I wrote a review and like the book, m'kay?]

Anyway, the paperback version of Matrimony is coming out on the 26th of August and Joshua has contacted me and offered to give away one of the signed books to a lucky reader.

I’m currently reading The Ghost Map.  It’s about a major cholera outbreak in London in the the middle part of the 19th Century.  How’s that for light bedtime reading?

In my defense, Tucker’s reading Bitten which is about…well…bites.  Spider bites.  Ferret bites.  Snake bites.  Human bites.  Pretty much any and every bite that you can think of.

Yeah.  The point…where the hell did I hide that?

I was on Twitter this morning [cause that's where I always am] and JesseHambley linked to a really cool website: http://www.charitywater.org/birthdays/intro/trailer.html.

You know what I like? I like it when I screw-up and it turns out good.

Yesterday, in between reading book 7 of the Harry Potter Series, I made a chocolate cake from scratch.

One of those jobbers that your grandma probably made that’s so thin and runny when you put it in the oven that you’re convinced that you screwed up somehow.

The recipe called for a 1/4 cup of cocoa. I had about an 1/8 of a cup. Did I give up? Nope! I added a teaspoon of vanilla and a teaspoon of cinnamon and hoped for the best.

Cara had her nine month appointment yesterday; she has gained no weight since her six months appointment.

The nurse who weighed Cara and measured her seemed very concerned by this little fact.

But, I’m cool with it. She’s gotten longer and come on, she walking and has been for the past two weeks. Not to mention the fact that she had salmonella poisoning for over a week. This kid is burning serious calories!

Wen Cara was born, she weighed 8lbs 3 oz and was 19 inches long; she was short and plump. This is the first time that she hasn’t been around the 90th percentile for her weight.

I have been a busy little beaver today (hence the picture). Normally around this time I’ve just gotten Cara down for a nap and am catching up on the blogs that I read and maybe checking my email.

Not the case today.

Since Cara woke up around 6 am , I’ve had plenty of time to be productive. I’ve already drank a pot of coffee, read several of my favorite blogs, been to Target and back (had to get diapers) and Cara has already had her morning nap. And since Nick Jr. is having a Go Diego Go marathon I have endured watched way too much of that nonsense quality show.

Hollyn’s friend, Jennifer, kindly mailed me her copy of The No-Cry Sleep Solution book. She enclosed a handwritten note (great penmanship, by the way!) saying, “Good Luck! Chapter 4 is the one to read if you want the quick read”.

I thumbed through the first three chapters. They contained basic safety information about your child’s sleep environment, the basics on your child’s sleep cycle and then a chapter on “sleep logs”. The vast majority of it was stuff that I’ve previously read in other resources, so I have to admit that I wasn’t the most diligent study on Chapters 1-3.

It begins tonight.
I’ve read the vast majority of the book and I have to say that it’s not nearly the scary, inhumane method that I had been led to believe that it was.
It’s behavioral psychology. Actual researched science. So, I decided to give it a chance.

In reading the book, one major thing became evident. We have NO schedule. We really don’t even have a routine. Correction. We have a routine if you call a routine “Cara wakes up at some point between 6 am and 8 am and then eats some boob a few times during the day and might have some people food at some point during the day and then between 6 pm and 8 pm she’ll have a bath and then at some point between 8 pm and 11 pm she’ll go to sleep (maybe).”